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German carmakers to install pilot direct air capture unit in Chile next year
The UK had safe water – until Brexit let the Tories sell environmental standards down the river | Stella Creasy
Michael Gove, who pledged to boost protections, now plans to scrap them. No wonder natural habitats are threatened
- Stella Creasy is the chair of the Labour Movement for Europe and the Labour and Cooperative MP for Walthamstow
This week politicians have again been talking crap – the kind that ends up clogging our waterways and streams and making them toxic. Nutrient neutrality sounds like something a health food drink promises. In layperson’s terms, these policies ensure that the materials leaching into our natural water sources help to maintain a healthy oxygen balance so that all – fish, fowl or human – can imbibe it safely. This can be put at risk by sewage discharges into our rivers. In political terms, however, these debates are proof that this government is happy to sell our precious environmental standards down the river.
As a result of farming and development, phosphates and nitrates get discharged into the soil and then to rivers, leading to eutrophication – waterways choking with algae.
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New solar installations to hit nearly 400GW this year as module prices hit new lows
New solar installations around the globe are expected to reach nearly 400 gigawatts (GW) in 2023, driven by China and record low prices for solar modules.
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World meteorologists point to ‘vicious cycle’ of heatwaves and air pollution
The climate crisis and soaring temperatures are worsening air quality, WMO says, with ‘knock-on effects’
Heatwaves across the world are worsening air quality and pollution, scientists have said.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said extreme temperatures are not the only hazard from heatwaves but that they also cause pollution-related health problems.
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AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT: Nature NGOs commit $150 mln to restore African rangelands
Oil trading company partners with US-based software developer to launch carbon emissions platform for energy sector
Former heads of government urge action to uphold nature finance pledge
Japanese developer partners with Vietnamese govt-owned player for rice farming project
AFRICA CLIMATE SUMMIT: Pledges flood into Nairobi event as rich nations scramble to scale climate finance
Majority of nature-based offset projects fail advocacy group’s evaluation criteria amid systemic flaws
Australia Market Roundup: Developer secures half a million ACCUs as price dips below A$29
Australia’s least wanted – 8 alien species and diseases we must keep out of our island home
Severe storms slam Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria – video
Heavy rain in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria has triggered flash floods that have left at least seven dead and many missing. In Turkey, some holiday makers were feared dead after flash flooding at a campsite in Kirklareli province, near the border with Bulgaria. Nikolai Denkov, the prime minister of Bulgaria, said two people died and three others were missing.
Continue reading...Million-tonne renewable methanol plan wins $500k in state backing
Victorian government kicks in $500,000 for feasibility study into developing a renewable methanol facility in Portland with huge production goals.
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Chandrayaan-3: Nasa's lunar orbiter photographs India's Moon lander Vikram
Shenzhen to auction off China’s first mangrove-based offsets in late September
Snowy 2.0 documents suggest the $12 billion project’s boring troubles are far from over
A planning application to fix Snowy 2.0 sinkhole and un-pause Florence offers insight into how the boring machine got stuck – and why more troubles could lie ahead.
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